Title: All that wheezes is not asthma: Paradoxical vocal cord movement presenting as severe acute asthma requiring ventilatory support.
Authors: Murray; Lawler
Abstract: Presents a case of a patient with an acute exacerbation of asthma requiring ventilatory support. Effects of tracheal intubation and ventilatory support on symptoms; Incorrect diagnosis of status asthmaticus; Presence of vocal cord dysfunction; Expiratory flow limitation due to paradoxical vocal cord movement.
Subjects: ASTHMA treatment; BREATHING apparatus; TRACHEA intubation; VOCAL cord diseases
Publication: Anaesthesia, 1998, Vol 53, Issue 10, p1006
ISSN: 0003-2409
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00577.x

All that wheezes is not asthma: Paradoxical vocal cord movement presenting as severe acute asthma requiring ventilatory support.

Murray; Lawler